MAO AND THE PARTY ESTABLISHMENT

• Contradictions in society or class unity?

• Contradictions among leaders or collective leadership?

• rectification of bureaucratism, or de-Stalinization?

• The party: a corruptible institution needing discipline, or self-regulating elite?

• Main danger: revisionism (Right) or dogmatism (Left)?

• Mass action/voluntarism to be encouraged or discouraged?

• Development model: self-reliance focused on agriculture, or Soviet model focused on heavy industry?

• External inputs to the economy?

• Mass education or tiered system?